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Uses of English verb forms
Conjugation, finiteness and verb conversion in English grammar / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Past Progressive" redirects here. For the 2019 album, see Past Progressive (album).
Modern standard English has various verb forms, including:
- Finite verb forms such as go, goes and went
- Nonfinite forms such as (to) go, going and gone
- Combinations of such forms with auxiliary verbs, such as was going and would have gone
They can be used to express tense (time reference), aspect, mood, modality and voice, in various configurations.
For details of how inflected forms of verbs are produced in English, see English verbs. For the grammatical structure of clauses, including word order, see English clause syntax. For non-standard or archaic forms, see individual dialect articles and thou.